PPC64 builds (was Re: Merge Status - Building available)

[Bill Nottingham]

David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said: 
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:45 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Egads.  We had thought about this at one point, and it seems to have slipped 
> > our collective minds.  Many things will be able to build, but some thing that 
> > require previously Extras packages in the buildroot will fail.  I've setup a 
> > tracker bug to track these.  If your package fails to build, please file a 
> > bug for it and block 'PPC64MissingDeps'.  We will be trying to fix these 
> > asap, by bootstrapping and rebuilding ex-Extras packages to generate a ppc64 
> > build of them.  If at all possible, please do not ExcludeArch: ppc64. 
> 
> And if you do ExcludeArch: ppc64 remember that _ALL_ uses of
> ExcludeArch: must have a corresponding bug filed, even if it's just an
> explanation. And that bug must be on the corresponding ExcludeArch
> tracker bug. I've created the tracker bug (#238953) for ppc64 -- aliased
> 'FE-ExcludeArch-ppc64' for consistency with the others, which will all
> probably drop the leading 'FE-' from the name at some point.
> 
> We _really_ ought to start enforcing this "ExcludeArch must have bug"
> rule in the build system.

Well, anything that requires mono can probably piggyback on 238950,
as opposed to having its own separate one.

Bill